[Tutor] Hands-on beginner's project?

[nathan virgil]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, nathan virgil <sdragon1984 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:50 AM, nathan virgil <sdragon1984 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, David <david at abbottdavid.com> wrote:
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>> >> > Okay, I'm resurrecting this project.
>> >> Where is this project code?
>> > It seems like good code,
>> It's not.
>>
>>
>> > # Content
>> > # retrieve data for current room
>> > room = 1
>> > if room == 1:
>> this is always true because you just set room to 1 right before you
>> checked the variable.
>> >     desc = "Ahead of you, you see a chasm."
>> >     ques = "Do you wish to try jumping over it? Y/N"
>> >     destYes = 2
>> >     destNo = 3
>> > elif room == 2:
>> this will never be true, which is why you can't get into the second room.
>> This whole thing needs to be in a loop.
>> But this is definitely not the best way to implement this either.
>>
>> >     desc = "Ahead of you, you see a warty green ogre."
>> >     ques = "Do you wish to eat it? Y/N"
>> >     destYes = 4
>> >     destNo = 5
>> > # etc for the rest of the rooms
>> He's wiring these rooms together with numbers.  The way I'd do it is
>> to create a Room object with a bunch of different methods, such as
>> room.print(), room.printDescription(), room.makeChoice(), and such,
>> and then the rooms would be connected together using data members.
>> It would be a lot more elegant and less confusing that way.
>>
>> >
>> > # Engine
>> > # ask current question and move to next room
>> > print desc
>> > ans = raw_input(ques).upper() # allow for lower case input
>> > if ans == "Y":
>> >     room = destYes
>> > elif ans == "N":
>> >     room = destNo
>> > elif ans == "north":
>> >     room = destN
>> > elif ans == "south":
>> >     room = destS
>> > elif ans == "east":
>> >     room = destE
>> > elif ans == "west":
>> >     room = destW
>> > elif ans == "Q": # give us a way out.
>> >     Break
>> > else:
>> >     print "I don't understand. Can you give a clearer answer?"
>>
>> You prompted the user, then retrieved the next room value.
>> Now we're here, and there's no code left.  So it stops here.
>>
>> >
>> but for some reason, it's not letting me go into
>> > Room 2 (the ogre).
>> Is it clearer why this isn't working now?
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> Erm, no, not really. Are you saying I need to take out those last two
> lines?
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Loops, then? The  code this is based off of  had the second line of  actual
code (between "room = 1" and "if room ==1") as "while true:", but when I
include this, it gives an error at that line. Is there another way to do
that? Maybe "while room != 4.2"?
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